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Christinyou
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Isaiah 58:3-12 Wherefore have we fasted, say they, and thou seest not? wherefore have we afflicted our soul, and thou takest no knowledge? Behold, in the day of your fast ye find pleasure, and exact all your labours. Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high. Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the LORD? Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke? Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh? Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the LORD shall be thy rereward. Then shalt thou call, and the LORD shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity; And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday: And the LORD shall guide thee continually, and satisfy thy soul in drought, and make fat thy bones: and thou shalt be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters fail not. And they that shall be of thee shall build the old waste places: thou shalt raise up the foundations of many generations; and thou shalt be called, The repairer of the breach, The restorer of paths to dwell in.

Lu 5:34 And he said unto them, Can ye make the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them?
Lu 5:35 But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

Isaiah 58:6 Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Who is the Fast that God has chosen? Is it not Christ? So what is fasting? Who looses the bands of wickedness, takes away heavy burdens, lets the oppressed go free, breaks every yoke?

This is our fast, not eating of our own bread or not eating our own bread, but closing our mouth that we might fill it with the Bread of Life Himself. He is not with us physically, so we fast for Him physically, being only quickened in the flesh. In the Spirit we have no need of fasting for He is our Spirit, In our soul-mind, fast and have no need of fasting. We have the mind of Christ in us, no need for fasting. We are renewing our minds to the mind of Christ and we fast seeking the truth, from the Comforter-Teacher the Holy Spirit.

Fasting, seeking after Christ: Phillip


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christinyou,

I'm glad you can understand what you are talking about.

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